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Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago

"Offering items to humans could simultaneously include opportunities for killer whales to practice learned cultural behavior, explore or play and in so doing learn about, manipulate or develop relationships with us," the researchers wrote. "Giving the advanced cognitive abilities and social, cooperative nature of this species, we assume that any or all these explanations for, and outcomes of such behavior are possible."

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

So..they’re researching us?

[-] murmurations@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

After humans have been genociding them and jamming their frequencies, their instinct in research is to gift humans food

[-] catty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The wolves of the seas. Ten thousand years from now, everyone will have a pet killer whale.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

That's ridiculous. We won't have oceans that far in the future.

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